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Pulse oximetry in bronchiolitis: is it needed?

Overview of attention for article published in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, October 2015
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Title
Pulse oximetry in bronchiolitis: is it needed?
Published in
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, October 2015
DOI 10.2147/tcrm.s93176
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Mohamed A Hendaus, Fatima A Jomha, Ahmed H Alhammadi

Abstract

Infants admitted to health-care centers with acute bronchiolitis are frequently monitored with a pulse oximeter, a noninvasive method commonly used for measuring oxygen saturation. The decision to hospitalize children with bronchiolitis has been largely influenced by pulse oximetry, despite its questionable diagnostic value in delineating the severity of the illness. Many health-care providers lack the appropriate clinical fundamentals and limitations of pulse oximetry. This deficiency in knowledge might have been linked to changes in the management of bronchiolitis. The aim of this paper is to provide the current evidence on the role of pulse oximetry in bronchiolitis. We discuss the history, fundamentals of operation, and limitations of the apparatus. A search of the Google Scholar, Embase, Medline, and PubMed databases was carried out for published articles covering the use of pulse oximetry in bronchiolitis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 42 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 21%
Researcher 7 16%
Student > Master 4 9%
Lecturer 4 9%
Professor 2 5%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 10 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 44%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 9%
Engineering 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 10 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2021.
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#2,085,070
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Outputs from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#90
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#28,174
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Outputs of similar age from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#3
of 53 outputs
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